Wild-Related Radio Appearances

That's why I like PA, if I am going to listen to sports talk, I want them to talk about sports. Half the time Barreiro is talking politics. Common is just a bad comedy hour to me. PA, yes he's a homer and over the top, but he has really good guests.

The only good thing on 1500 is Soucheray, and he's not sports related. IMO, he could go to WCCO, who already has Mischke. Those two are as much MN radio as Garrison Keiller was.

Yeah Zoooooooolgad is 100% 1500 ESPN now (former contributor to KFAN) along with Phil Mackey, and numerous others I can't think of I'm sure. I love the Common Man...he's a pleasant reminder that most of us take sports too seriously sometimes.

Barrerio is KFAN's version of Reusse in terms of tempering expectations but IMO he's much more intelligent than Reusse.

It's pretty much a mix of guys who were on in the old political format (Reusse, Soucheray) and sports guys poached from KFAN (Mackey, Zulgad, Joe Anderson).

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Mileski and Falness had Heatley on a half hour ago although there really wasn't much to take away from it. If anything, the interview felt like one of those bad PONDcasts which end up being shallow and try to promote the Wild.

Mileski and Falness had Heatley on a half hour ago although there really wasn't much to take away from it. If anything, the interview felt like one of those bad PONDcasts which end up being shallow and try to promote the Wild.

Agree with this, but they've had him on a couple of times already, there's not really much else he can say especially when they are like Mikko likes to distribute the puck. It's like we all know that, I'm sure Heater does too.

The whole program has been good so far actually mostly focused on Wild. I'm looking forward to the Russo appearance myself. The Butch interview was a little odd too, but this is the new flagship, so of course they would want to promote the Wild. Either way, I liked all of the talk, and the things to look out for. Obviously they talked about the d-corps, which was an interesting topic when they talked about Scandella. Going to be interesting what happens there.

not sure if this is the right place to post this, but did anyone else listen to russo on Kfan around ~4:30ish? Probably the most negative i have ever heard him, he sounded almost depressed about the state of the wild.

not sure if this is the right place to post this, but did anyone else listen to russo on Kfan around ~4:30ish? Probably the most negative i have ever heard him, he sounded almost depressed about the state of the wild.

not sure if this is the right place to post this, but did anyone else listen to russo on Kfan around ~4:30ish? Probably the most negative i have ever heard him, he sounded almost depressed about the state of the wild.

Moved it over here and stickied the thread since it keeps getting lost. Not surprised Russo sounds negative after his last couple articles but still...

It was mainly centered around our inability to break the puck out and inablility to sustain offensive pressure for any amount of time (good combo, eh?).

Really it comes down to whether or not the wild have the horses to play the way they want/need to play in order to win the game. Russo mainly talked about what we all know and fear; Defense/team speed.

He also talked about building the team around koivu and how the wild are gonna be in a heap of trouble if he doesn't find a way to produce. This the big leagues, you get paid to put points on the board, not to play defense.

The jist so far is that he thinks the Wild should re-sign Harding for three years towards the end of the season with the understanding that he splits with Backs next season and then becomes full-time starter when Backs moves on.

He also said Wild management weren't too thrilled with his glowing piece on Brodziak...

Annnnd he just said Scandella will be better than Burns. Now he went too far...